Welding repair services (e.g., automotive, general) · California

Bestop Aluminess, LLC

Santee, CA · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bestop Aluminess, LLC runs at 571% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Welding repair services (e.g., automotive, general) workplace, earning a grade F.

Bestop Aluminess, LLC: 12.0 TCR = 571% of Welding repair services (e.g., automotive, general) BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bestop Aluminess, LLC safety composite

Bestop Aluminess, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Bestop Aluminess, LLC: 9.7 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2023

Bestop Aluminess, LLC's TCR rose 4.5 from 9.7 in 2022 to 14.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Santee, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 571% of ind

  • DART 14.2 DART
  • RANK #144/148
  • PHOTO Alta Enterprises LLC…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alta Enterprises LLC- Bohemia DDO (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bestop Aluminess, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Bestop Aluminess, LLC averages 12.0 TCR (571% of the Welding repair services (e.g., automotive, general) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Bestop Aluminess, LLC TCR series: 2022=9.7 · 2023=14.2 · BLS 2.1

Where Bestop Aluminess, LLC falls in its industry

2,560 Welding repair services (e.g., establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #144 safest of 148 Welding repair services (e.g., employers in California.

Bestop Aluminess, LLC (48 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bestop Aluminess, LLC
Bestop Aluminess, LLC (48 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Bestop Aluminess, LLC has more employees than the Welding repair services (e.g., automotiv median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 14.2 14.2 3 0 0
2022 9.7 9.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · CA · Santee

2,560 Welding repair services (e.g., automotive, general) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 74 employers in Santee, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Alta Enterprises LLC- Bohemia DDO 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITS ConGlobal Savannah Prosperity (CGI) dba LanPort 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whaley Foodservice-Nashville 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR JOB Erection & Engineering, Inc 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ARVIN PRODUCTION & ADMIN 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rava Business Park 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Transportation & Contracting Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE VPS, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 595 1,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA223 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0403 - SANTEE CA WHSE 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRS Santee - 8701 Cuyamaca Street 280 FTE
NAT-TCR OrePac Building Products - Phoenix 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 212 Saugus 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parsons House Frisco 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR highway, street and bridge construction 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seattle 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE CECO Concrete Construction : St Louis 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - Muncie 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - Kennedale 48 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.